Commissioned to create a bust of Napoleon’s great-grand-niece Marie Bonaparte, the sculptor Brâncusi instead delivered a bronze phallus. Thus begins a lively historical tour covering the early days of modernism, the emergence of psychoanalysis, and the nascent study of female sexuality.
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Short Cuts
A Brief History of Princess X
Gabriel Abrantes
Playing as part of Short Cuts Programme 11
– KATHLEEN MCINNIS